4: my art piece is based of a depiction from the florentine codex however the mexica themselves sculpted depictions of cihuateteo having a skull like face claws a skirt that is tide at the waist with a snake and even skulls worn as decorations.

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🧵thread 1: Cihuateteo. In nahua/Mexica tradition a cihuateteo wher women who had died during child birth since in mexica society giving birth was seen similar to a warrior fighting on the field they were upheld the same as a warrior who had died in battle and thus upon death >

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Book 4 of Garza Twins is going to rock! The cover art's done, & I'm hip-deep in the story, which takes Carol & Johnny into the Above, where the spirit warriors & cihuateteoh that protect the sun god are about to wage war against forces that would burn our world to cinders.

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